Re: Health benefits of saturated fats

On 20 Apr 2009 22:34:06 GMT, nutcase@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"but it is difficult to know how far to push it. "The healing miracles
of coconut oil" by Bruce Fife pushes every possible benefit to the limit
and sometimes a bit beyond IMHO."

In some rodent varieties when they want a bunch to do diabetes research
they feed them a high fat diet of 60 percent of calories. The fat is
pure coconut oil. Diabetes soon appears. This chow has been
standardized for just this purpose.

Be careful about extrapolating that to humans.
Rodents normal chow is low fat.
--
Quentin Grady ^ ^ /
New Zealand, >#,#< [
/ \ /\
"... and the blind dog was leading."

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin
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